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enWed, 29 Jan 2014 15:54:48 -0500Thu, 16 Jul 2015 11:44:16 -0400Santiago, Playinghttp://wexarts.org/node/12543
Along with Twenty Years Later , Santiago is one of the most acclaimed Brazilian documentaries. In 1992, João Moreira Salles started making a film about Santiago, the butler who had worked for his family for decades. Unable to find a shape for the footage, Salles returned to the project and...<a href="/film-video/santiago-playing" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/12543
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:54:48 -0500Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsDiary, Letters, Revolutionshttp://wexarts.org/node/12541
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March 31, 1964, military coup that initiated 20 years of dictatorship in Brazil, we’re presenting a program that deals with that legacy both directly and indirectly. Structured like a travel diary, Flavia Castro’s Diary, Letters, Revolutions recounts the...<a href="/film-video/diary-letters-revolutions" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/12541
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:51:25 -0500Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsLimbo, Brasília, and other short films; Two-Way Streethttp://wexarts.org/node/12539
Cao Guimarães has one of the most distinctive and admired bodies of work in contemporary Brazilian filmmaking. Recording an inventory of distinctive and visually striking moments in daily life, Guimarães creates a poetic vision of the world—whether he’s filming the inhospitable utopia of Brasília,...<a href="/film-video/limbo-bras-lia-and-other-short-films-two-way-street" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/12539
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:48:12 -0500Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsTwenty Years Laterhttp://wexarts.org/node/12537
“One of the ten greatest films of all time.”—Kleber Mendonça Filho, director of Neighboring Sounds Unanimously hailed a classic of the documentary field, Twenty Years Later powerfully announced Eduardo Coutinho as one of the most significant filmmakers in Brazil (and the world). In 1964 Coutinho...<a href="/film-video/twenty-years-later" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/12537
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:40:55 -0500Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsThe End and the Beginning, ​Look at Me Againhttp://wexarts.org/node/12535
The northeast of Brazil, or sertaõ , occupies a prominent place in the country’s national identity and cultural imagination. The cliché of the hardened, oppressed, impoverished people of the northeast, plagued by local barons, false prophets, and a perpetual drought, dominated many of the most...<a href="/film-video/end-and-beginning-look-me-again" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/12535
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:38:48 -0500Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsThe Hills of Disorderhttp://wexarts.org/node/12533
Ranked by São Paulo’s O Globo newspaper as one of the 10 best Brazilian films of the decade, The Hills of Disorder is an adventurous, ambitious dream of a film by Andrea Tonacci, a veteran Cinema Marginal director. Through a mix of documentary and recreation, Tonacci tells the fascinating tale of...<a href="/film-video/hills-disorder" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/12533
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:35:05 -0500Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsIracema, All Is Brazilhttp://wexarts.org/node/12531
One of the landmarks of Brazilian cinema and a major influence on generations of filmmakers, Iracema ’s fusion of fiction and documentary is still exhilarating for contemporary audiences. Iracema (an anagram of “America”) is the tragic story of a young teenager from the Amazon (played by...<a href="/film-video/iracema-all-brazil" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/12531
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:16:45 -0500Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsJustice, Like Water through Stonehttp://wexarts.org/node/12529
The winner of six international film festival prizes, Maria Augusta Ramos’s Justice combines Frederick Wiseman’s cool-headed and clear-eyed portrayals of large institutions or societal systems with the power of a courtroom drama. Ramos reveals larger issues in contemporary Brazilian society and its...<a href="/film-video/justice-water-through-stone" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/12529
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:14:57 -0500Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsFaith, The Earth Giveth, The Earth Taketh Awayhttp://wexarts.org/node/11635
At the end of the millennium, documentarian Ricardo Dias traveled across Brazil to provide a vast, diverse portrait of spirituality as it was currently practiced. The vastness and diversity of the country allows for a spectrum of types of devotion, rituals, and religious celebrations. With a cool-...<a href="/film-video/faith-earth-giveth-earth-taketh-away" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/11635
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 00:01 -0500Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsNews from a Personal War, Bus 174http://wexarts.org/node/11629
From one of the codirectors of international phenomenon City of God , News from a Personal War succinctly lays out the battle between Rio’s police forces and the drug dealers who dominate the slums (favelas) that are dramatically perched on the hillsides overlooking the city’s wealthiest...<a href="/film-video/news-personal-war-bus-174" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/11629
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 00:01 -0500Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsABC of a Strike, Intermissionshttp://wexarts.org/node/11625
This extraordinary evening of films sets the stage for a winter of Brazilian culture and art at the Wexner Center. Showing for the first time ever outside of Brazil, ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of...<a href="/film-video/abc-strike-intermissions" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/11625
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 00:01 -0500Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsTropicáliahttp://wexarts.org/node/11621
“Tropicalia…wasn’t a style or movement as much as an atmosphere, a rush of youthful, cosmopolitan, liberationist optimism that broke over Brazil like a sun shower and soaked into everything: art, music, fashion, film, theater, literature.”— New York Times Taking the audience on a tour through the...<a href="/film-video/tropic-lia" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/11621
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 00:01 -0500Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsHélio Oiticicahttp://wexarts.org/node/11637
Although he died young in 1982, Hélio Oiticica has increasingly become recognized as one of the most inspiring and influential artists of the revolutionary 1960s and 70s. Taking cues from a spectrum of influences that ranged from Rio’s street life to Jimi Hendrix, Oiticica’s career encompassed...<a href="/film-video/h-lio-oiticica" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/11637
Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:42:10 -0400Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsHousemaidshttp://wexarts.org/node/11633
“No other film has ever managed to portray as deeply what is ingrained in the Brazilian unconscious.”—Luiz Carlos Merten, Estadão It’s all but obligatory for middle- and upper-class families in Brazil to employ a housemaid, and the country has more domestic workers than any other. Gabriel Mascaro’s...<a href="/film-video/housemaids" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/11633
Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:36:07 -0400Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsA Night in 67http://wexarts.org/node/11631
Forget that it’s winter outside and heat up your Valentine’s Day with music and passion from one of the most exciting moments in Brazil’s musical history. Not unlike today’s American Idol , Brazil’s music “festivals” of the mid-1960s were televised competitions that launched the careers of...<a href="/film-video/night-67" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/11631
Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:30:19 -0400Wexner Center for the Arts - EventsPrisoner of the Iron Bars, High-Risehttp://wexarts.org/node/11627
“It’s hard to express in words what our life is like in here, perhaps images work better.”— O prisioneiro da grade de ferro—Retratos São Paulo’s Carandiru Penitentiary was the most infamous in South America. Not only because it was the largest prison on the continent, but also because of the bloody...<a href="/film-video/prisoner-iron-bars-high-rise" class="more-link"><br><br><strong>Read more</strong></a>http://wexarts.org/node/11627
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